Digital Comics Store Update (20th April 2011)

Hello hello! Hope you are all fine and ready for this week’s comics update.

Let’s start with a quality addition to our Batman range, in the form of the first two issues of 1989 series Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. In part 1 and 2 of the 5-part “Shaman” storyline, Bruce Wayne meets a tribal shaman who influences his life forever while mountain climbing in his days before becoming Batman. Returning to Gotham City, Bruce takes up the cowl and meets Leslie Thompkins before experiencing a major tragedy.

Rumour is our next character could destroy Iron Man’s armour with his bare hands, and that he commands superhuman martial arts abilities… Meet chilling superbaddie Mandarin in Invincible Iron Man Annual (2010). The Mandarin is a collection of lies, stories, myths, and legends – is he really a violent street crook born in a brothel? The scion of an aristocratic dynasty? Was his father a petty criminal or an ambassador? Was his mother a British noblewoman, or maybe a dragon-chasing wastrel lost in the underbelly of the world? Find out here.

While Transformers 3: Movie Prequel continues with Rising Storm #3, brand new series Transformers: Heart of Darkness also starts this week. Galvatron is on the move! With the mystery surrounding Gorlam Prime still unsolved, Cyclonus and Scourge are tasked with helping raise an army… But for what purpose?

I love digital comics but haven’t bought many yet, because i would like to be able to access them on more devices, are there plans to ever bring them to PS3, NGP, Android, IPhone, most importantly PC? I want to know i will be able to view these comics in a player for ever!

so about this ps3 digital comic reader?. totally stopping me buy digital comics full stop as i have no need for psp. i love comics but you not making them available on my platform of choice. please make it happen

The Q&A should stay as it is because it’s information as we had it at the time (maybe an addendum can be slotted in though, let’s see). As for the website, the message is accurate (No Store Yet – not to say we will never ever launch in other territories, but it is not possible in the near future).

nice update, and the stand, not read the books and i never got round to seeing the tv miniseries they made of it, so it’s nice to see a comic adaptation.
there is one question i do have about the series, and that is how many issues it will be in total.

on a related note i understand marvel produced a series of dark tower comics, i’d love to see those on the store.

I’ve asked if we could add something to the Q&A so hopefully this can be changed soon. The website was changed too so it’s not misleading for anybody (try the link you sent, it should be different now).
The stance is the same – I meant we don’t know what will happen in time (who knows if in the future we’ll be in a different position?), but this is misleading and only my wishful thinking, so to clarify the situation remains the same and there will be no more SCEE stores as per statement.

Hi Pauline
Another decent update I see, and thanks for the reply last week about the ‘missing’ Hack / Slash comics. I guess it’s to be expected that a comic about serial killers, from a publisher called Devil’s Due, is going to be grazing the edges of acceptability here and there.

Though it does make me curious as to exactly what guideline/boundry it crossed. Violence doesn’t seem to be a problem (plenty of that in every 200AD prog), swearing? Well Kick Ass had plenty of cussin’ on offer, Boobies? I’ve seen a few of those in my comics too.

Hi Toy_brain – you’re very welcome!
As for Hack/Slash, it slightly crossed the line on explicit content (it’s more explicit than the other comics we have on the service). I’m not sure I can go into toooo much detail after that. ðŸ˜‰

let’s be honest for once and just say it’s never getting released for other region cause just look at all the other service’s no new one’s added for other countries and last year U.K got 3 extra service’s